"HE'S MORE MACHINE NOW THAN MAN. TWISTED AND EVIL" There are a lot of websites out there that are better than mine. That's a little like saying there are a lot of planets out there that don't support life. Anyway... where the fuck was I going with this? Oh yeah... I don't have the time, the space or the coffee fueled energy to list them all. I do my best with the Blog Stuff list to the right and I link stuff up whenever I can. Say something nice about me though and you'll get an extra special mention... I think I probably name-checked James Lomax's Recumbent Gaze before now and there is a permanent link to it too but I just found out that, nice guy as he is, he had the following to say about little old me: I recently discovered Mike Atherton's site (not "the twat with a bat", as he himself says), and enjoy it for similar reasons to Scary Duck. It's a refreshing personal voice, which manages to amuse. He appears to spend a third of his life on the Internet - staying up into the early hours - a third of it reading books, and the rest working at Foyles in London. And the latter provides him with interesting stories worthy of top level media comment - like meeting Gerry Adams - and yet here he is, this nondescript dude (sorry Mike - but you see what I mean?), recounting his days. It is again amateurish, by which I mean it has more charm and interest than the slickly professional fare which is more commonly high-profile. The Web, you see, was supposed to be like this, an accessible medium giving a public voice to you, me, and anyone else with a connected computer... No need to apologise - 'nondescript dude' is the nicest thing anyone has had to say about me in ages. So... if any of you guys come here looking for cutting commentary or well written articles then just go to James' site instead. I'm more of your 'In Case of Fuckwit Emergency - Break Glass' type of blog. I do occasionally post photographs of girls in Star Wars fetish gear though: Hey - does this mean that I am not slickly professional and high-profile? Humbug... Mike is blogging to: nothing